Phonics for Teachers


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Here is everything prospective reading teachers need to know in order to introduce phonics to elementary school children in a way that's interesting and effective. This concise handbook shows future teachers how to teach phonics while, at the same time, “filling in the gaps” in their personal knowledge of the subject. Coverage is focused on decoding, the lynchpin skill in literacy development. Part I addresses the relationship between phonics and literacy, and provides a six-chapter tutorial that will test the reader's own level of skill. In Part Two, dozens of classroom activities are arranged in the order in which research has shown phonics knowledge to be acquired. New coverage includes Onsets and Rimes—addressing common phonemic combinations; Numerous fresh, engaging phonics activities that reflect the latest research in the field. For prospective early childhood reading teachers.




A Guide to Teaching Phonics


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Language at the Speed of Sight


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We’ve been teaching reading wrong—a leading cognitive scientist tells us how we can finally do it right




A Fresh Look at Phonics, Grades K-2


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In a Fresh Look at Phonics, Wiley Blevins, author of the blockbuster Phonics from A-Z, explains the 7 ingredients of phonics instruction that lead to the greatest student gains, based on two decades of research in classrooms. For each of these seven must-haves, Wiley shares lessons, routines, word lists, tips for ELL and advanced learners, and advice on pitfalls to avoid regarding pacing, decodable texts, transition time, and more. A Fresh Look at Phonics is the evidence-based solution you have been seeking that ensures all students develop a solid foundation for reading.




Teaching Phonics & Word Study in the Intermediate Grades


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Revised and updated, this invaluable resource includes ready-made lessons, extensive word lists, quick assessments, and so much more to help struggling readers develop the skills they need to successfully decode.




Jolly Phonics Teacher's Book


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Jolly Phonics teaches young students the skills they need to read and write fluently in their first year of school. This book is an essential guide for teachers who want to teach the program alongside Student Books 1 and 2 in the classroom. It is a comprehensive resource, offering a set of structured lesson plans that give step-by-step guidance on all aspects of the lesson, including the student book activities. It also provides an in-depth introduction to Jolly Phonics and a summary of key points to help teachers get started. This new edition of the Teacher's Book has been updated to complement the new Jolly Phonic Student Books. The format is similar to previous editions, but is enhanced by: - A more concise introduction that is easy to navigate for quick retrieval of information. - New, improved content, including scope and sequences for Steps 1 to 3, two US case studies, an English alphabetic code chart, a student checklist, detailed guidance on how to help struggling readers, and updated lesson plans. - A brief overview of the Science of Reading and the Science of Writing and how Jolly Phonics aligns with both, as a program that provides explicit teaching of phonemic awareness, alongside systematic phonics and writing instruction, with a focus on improving fluency, vocabulary acquisition, and reading comprehension.







Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, and Word Analysis for Teachers


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A practical, self-paced tutorial on the phonics, phonemic awareness, and word analysis topics students need to know to succeed on teacher certification or competency tests. A classic in the field, written by two highly respected authorities. KEY TOPICS: Recognizing Words: Helping Children Develop Word Analysis Strategies; The Early Stages: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness; Phonics: Onset, Rime, and Consonant Patterns; Phonics: Vowel Patterns; Context; Sight Words; Morphemic Analysis; Chunking Words into Smaller Units: Syllabication and Structural Analysis; The Dictionary and Word Analysis; Developmental Spelling Patterns: Insights into the Development of Word Analysis Skills MARKET: Pre- and in-service teachers preparing for the state reading exams now required in many states, and those who are taking teacher certification or competency tests.




How to Teach Phonics - Teachers' Guide


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How to Teach Phonics is a Teachers' Guide, and it can be used by Teachers and Parents of K-12, Adult Learners, Dyslexic Persons who can Read but cannot Spell, and Advanced ESL Students. The author, Linguist Camilia Sadik spent 15 years intensely dissecting English, discovering over 100 spelling rules, applying the rules in 600 phonics lessons, class-testing her discoveries, and preparing 10 breakthrough phonics-based reading and spelling books for all ages and all types of learners. Teaching phonics means teaching which letter or combination of letters to choose when spelling every English sound in every English word. Sadik's books are for learning to spell nearly all the letter combinations and the letters that do not sound like their letter name in 32,000 words. For free sample lessons, visit SpellingRules.com How to Teach Phonics - Teachers' Guide by Camilia Sadik contains easy instructions for using the 10 phonics-based reading and spelling books. The titles of the books are 100 Spelling Rules, Learn to Spell 500 Words a Day (6 volumes: A, E, I, O, U, and Consonants), Read Instantly, and The Compound Words. The books contain over 30 Unique Learning Features that make Learning Inescapable. All words are divided into syllables, all silent letters are italicized, every phonic to be learned is colored and bolded, every lesson begins with a spelling rule, grouping of words that follow a rule, each vowel is isolated in a book, and the only comprehensive books of phonics. Teach or learn to read and spell hundreds of words at a time, guaranteed!




Secret Stories


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An educational toolkit for teaching phonics, consisting of a book, posters and musical CD, all of which provides for multiple options and inputs for learning, including: visual-icons, auditory and kinesthetic motor skill manipulations, as well as a variety of dramatic and emotive cuing-systems designed to target the affective learning domain. This "backdoor-approach" to phonemic skill acquisition is based on current neural research on Learning & the Brain--specifically how our brains actually learn best!The Secret Stories® primary purpose is to equip beginning (or struggling, upper grade) readers and writers, as well as their instructors, with the tools necessary to easily and effectively crack the secret reading and writing codes that lie beyond the alphabet, and effectively out of reach for so many learners! It is not a phonics program! Rather, it simply provides the missing pieces learners need to solve the complex reading puzzle--one that some might never solve otherwise! The Secrets(tm) are sure to become one of the most valuable, well-used, and constantly relied-upon teaching tools in your instructional repertoire!